And They Didn’t Die

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…to keep their family unit together. Those in the cities protested against "Bantu" education, rent hikes, bus fare increases, forced removals of African communities, and government-owned beer halls that soaked up their husbands` wages. In the rural areas, women protested against the Government's "betterment" schemes, which included the mandatory culling of precious livestock, requiring women to fill and maintain cattle dipping tanks without pay, and soil conservation measures which dispossessed many families of arable land.